About Emma
Emma Hughes is a warm, interactive counsellor who mixes practical tools with reflective work. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and relationship strains while also addressing grief, depression, ADHD and addiction concerns. Emma uses a respectful, non-stigmatising style and will offer gentle challenge when appropriate.
Emma trained in Integrative Counselling and studied a degree in Psychology before moving into psychodynamic practice. She has eight years of experience in the field and maintains membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
She updates her continuing professional development through the organisation. In sessions she combines psychodynamic ideas with cognitive behavioural techniques and person-centred listening. That means she pays attention to past patterns and present thinking, while creating space for people to say what matters to them.
Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs rather than following a fixed script. She has also worked outdoors with trauma and behavioural difficulties, bringing practical, movement-based elements into some work when helpful. Emma supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment issues, body image concerns, codependency, chronic illness and caregiving stress among other challenges.
Her approach suits people who want both insight and practical coping skills. Emma aims to make the process straightforward and collaborative, helping clients move towards clearer choices and steadier emotional balance.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Emma draws on attachment-based work to explore how early relationships affect current patterns and emotional responses. This approach can help people understand issues like abandonment, attachment difficulties and repeated relationship conflicts. She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Emma will work with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, preferences and everyday life. That collaboration means plans can change over time as needs shift and progress is reviewed.
Online therapy with Emma is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, while live chat or messaging suits short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options add flexibility for fitting therapy around work, travel or family routines and make it easier to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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